The Sun. — London, England, 1864-12-14 00:00:00

XONEY ABXET AND 4 '.O.T.V.IVICIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The abundance of capital afloat in the discount market, and the belief that there will be only a small enquiry for it on commercial account after the l 'Pse of another week, when the preparations for the liquidation of the annual accounts will, in all likelihood, by that time be fully provided f or , h ave ' e ll to the conclusion that the directors of the Bank al England will, at their weekly court tomorrow, r educe their cfficial minimum. The ideal however, i s not very generally shared in, because it is as• t`nted that till after the New Year the requirements 'IF the mercantile community will be stimulated by payments on revenue account. Notwith• s tanding these conflicting opinions, the quotations for money have been exceedingly easy to-day, as the discount establishments have shown some anZiety. The terms charged by brokers for three months' securities have bean 61 7 per cent., while ".ceptional transactions have been reported at 6f Per cent. The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Ceylon Company was held to•day. The report °f the directors, submitted for adoption, stated that the accounts showed that the profit resulting from the operations of the past six months may be justly e stimated at £14,200; out of which the directors r ecommended that an interim dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, and a bonus of 24 per cent. ‘ )11 the capital paid-up on the 30th of September, a mounting together to 10s. 6d. per share, be de clared, and made payable, free from income tax, on the 17th inst. The proposed payments would absorb £9,870, and leave a balance of profit amount 3ng to £4,330 unappropriated. The reserve fund had been credited with interest at 5 per cent., and Nvhen the premiums on the new shares allotted in / Lille were added, would amount to £22,650. There was no alteration of importance in th e fo reign exchanges yesterday afternoon. About £91,000 in gold was taken into the Bank sesterday. The British and Californian Banking Company l lave made a call of £2 10a per share on the capital stock, payable on the 25th of January next. Two O'CLOCK. At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Renter's Telegram, the 3 per cent. French Rentes were 66 f. 25e. Firm—inanimate. BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing Shanßailways Paid. Prioe. Business dont 100 Mantic &Ft Lawrene , all 58 60 Sk lom.,Baroda&.Cent 101 1021 1034 1021 Gu. 5 per cent. - 20 Do. E. Shares 10 Idis 1p 104 buffalo and Laxeluron all 5 54 10 Do. Preferenoe .... all 8 9 Buffalo Brant&Godricl 100 1 100 6p. ot , bds. Aug. 1, 187 100 Do. do. July 1, 187, 100 75 80 LOO Do. do. June 1. 18; 100 st Olcutta.&S.Eastn.(l.in 100 - 18 100 at Cape Town t Dock Bcr, 100 8) 90 100 Demerara 7 p.c. per. pf all stock Ewan. Bengal gu. sp. lu, 1024 1031 Stook East Indian. gu. sp. c 100 1034 1041 1031 20 Do. do. J Ext 5 stook Grand Trunk of Uana , i; 150 21 22 1 0 Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge 6 per cent all 83 01 9) 100 Do. Ist rret. Bond,. all 70 72 100 Do. do. deferred all 61 34 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bond s., all 66 68 100 Do. do. deferred all 56 58 100 Do. 3d Pref. stock all 53 54 100 Do. do. deferred... ... all 47 50 100 Do. 4th Pref. stoo — . all 30 32 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 28 30 stook GtlndlaPenln.gua.sp., 100 1031 1044 20 Do. Gul. 5 per cent 12 pr fp 20 Do. New gua. sp. c... 2 pr 41 3 stook at. South.of India(Lim guaranteed 5 per oent Iro 101 103 stock Do. 41 per cent.... 100 stock Do.. * 204 4t. W. olCanadaShare, all 9 01 204 Do. New . 18 114 11 100 Do. 5 p.o. '73 with't opt. all 88 CO 100 Do, 54 p. o. do. '77-8. -. all 80 62 10 [udian Branch Limited 2 1 4 d stook Aladras- guar., 5p.0. .. 100 1014 103 i stook Do. 41 p. o. Extensiot 100 96 08 stock Do. 44 d 0........ 100 91 93 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 -- stook 11elb.Corp. 6p. o. Bildt, 100 50 llelb. & liobson's Bay all 59 61 110 Newßruuswick &Quad, Class A and B all 3 6 N.lll.C'da6 pc lat 1 belt 100 52 34 stock Seinde .......... 105 101 103 1024 stool, Do. Delhi ! if 100 1024 1034 SO Do. d 0...... 2 4d 4p st Do. Punjaub 3•c I 110 1024 1034 1021 Stock Do. Inclus.St. Flog) tot' , 000 95 97 The English Stock Market has been subjected to some slight fluctuation today. In the morning the Funds were at an improvement of I per cent., out Soon afterwards a relapse occurred, and quota. tions have gone back to last evening's values; Consols being 891 for money, and 891 I for the account. The New Threes and Reduced AIIDIIi. !lee are 881 ; Exchequer Bills, ss. die.; and .Udia 5 per Cepts., 102 f There has been very little animation or fluctuation IQ the Foreign Market. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 711 4 ; do. Consolides, 46; 47;; Mexican, 291 1; do. New, 271 I; Greek, 221 23; Spanish Pas. 311 I ; do. Certificates, 14 14 ; the Confe dirate Loan, 60 62; the Egyptian, t 1 prem.; and t he Danubian, j die. to par. In the Railway Share Market a firmer tone is R P nerally apparent. Midland have improved £1 !°5l North Western and Metropolitan each 11 55.; 441 neashire and Yorkshire, 15s. ; North Eastern ( terwick), £1; Great Western, 102.; and Great l 'A.lstern, ss. pi, The Foreign and Colonial lines remain very in active at about previous quotations. For Bank and Miscellaneous Shares there con. L ti ntles to be a very limited inquiry with little , v ariation of importance to - report in price. Al liance Bank realise 37 1; Imperial Ottoman, 164 ( 17 ; London and South African, 22 ; Hudson Bay ~"topany, 161 :; London Financial, 248 ; and 4 tiOnal Discount Company, 151 *. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. L ‘ GOVERNMENT FUN DS. E". ° p‘a. Cent, Consols , Do Account, Jan. 10 ,Per Cent. Reduced BB* t " k ew 3 per Cent "e 4 47 2f per Cent. Jan. 1894.... , 1) 0 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 — 44 nuities, 30 yrs, expire .sth J an., 1880 — Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — 1) 0 (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — -4achequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 per Cent 1 d.is Do 4500 Do £lOO and £2OO 1)1 : 11 c England Stk, 61 per Ct. — "0 Account .. t h ,,DI AN-GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. `,, , lia Stock, 10f per Cent., April 1874 — 0 1 , 4 - 1 Account ''',,° 6 per Cent. July, 1870 1; 0 Account — °" 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 v , Do Certificates 4 -' 0 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) — V 0 4i pei Cent. 1 , 0 Eufaced Paper, 4 per Cent -- ~0 6 per Cent., Jan. 1872 .. 7,° Of per Cent., May, 1879 .. '-',,° 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 .. -- ,\',) Ronde ELOUU — Ptil 4jo Under £l,OOO •••• -- _ - A, !FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. e ' s trian Bonds, 5 per Cent l Eizili en 5 - per Cent ue 4t per Cent., 1852-58-60 11 Do 1863 B3l nos Ayres 6 per Cent — ~,h„? Account... • t urte 6 per Cent. t o °4l per Cent c' k e oabian 6 per Cent — ''a) 6 per Cent. IL I) ? per Cent. 1864 1 84 3 per Cent., 1825 D U 5 per Cent, 1864 .k° 5 per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid — pm ttador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — I) E , °, Provisonal Land Warrant — 'YPtian 7 per Cent — to £lOO Bonds c', Second Issue Do 1864 941 k 1 Vo Scrip, £l5 paid -I\'ek per t ent., 1824-6, ex-Coupons — i1 ) -0 Acu h e Coupons t h. , u4 Account ' 4 h tertiala 5 per Cent lt, — ,° 1839 and 1859 .. -- - 4 4' 41 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 'Peen 3 per Cent 0 Account hDo 1864 29i tj ° 6 per Cent. A.nglo-French... . — die 1 : 5 Scrip, £43 paid.... .' French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c ~O tish Imperial 5 per Cent dies , Granada — , 17 ) 2 per Cent — I,° Deterred c , Land Warrants (Hectares) .. ... die Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861.. ‘ , l, .. _ do Aug., 1866.... . ' b'vilt 41 per Cent .. b ° 3 per Cent. (LTribarren)... — IP 43 / 4 per Cent., 1862 .. • et ? Account . iS o liguese 3 per Cent., 1853 ~ b Account .. D °3 Cent 1856 '7 '9 '6O, 62,'3.. 47i 8 o Per ~ f 7 5 4 CCOUnt • • - e l lan, 5 per Cent 1822, £ St., - 1860 pe r Cent., 1850 .. ' b , 1860 -- ,° 0 per Cent 1859.. 0 0 b 6 per Cent, 1862 ' I)„ c/ , 1364 Blt - ' 3 ° • £65 paid 4 1 ,,, rip, 64euan 6 per Cent i — t h 0 Account , — if le a 3 per Cent e Account bDeferred - — b.? Account k buo Passive 1 1)4 4; Account — b o ' 4l l Cert. of Coup not funded l3l 14 W e Account 11 k 441 1, 4 per Cent r , . b o 44 6 per Cent. 1854 .• — bo Account 1 0 0 6 , Per Cent. 1858 • b o '"ceunt. 1,0 1.00 Bonds D, Q Per Cent. 1862 n o Account •• I_l o ife lo o Bonds.. 7ll 14 5 ',',llaratteed, 4 per Cent..... ‘..kfiz„l3 4 Scrip, £4O paid 1) Vo A'el e eunt 3 per Cent. r .o c , A Per Cent., 1862 b o --ec 0u. ..... .• . • • • 4 ti P Cant., 1164 est ri *Ntends on the above payable in London b` /1 8i4 %/1 , 6 per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins. 4,tetil"2l Per Cent., Ex. 25f — 10e.t 2 Per Cent. Ex. 12 Gail — to Per It e ach i t Cent. Certificates "IIL, crass 3 per Cent Do 5 5 I), ,t 1 o 4 te r Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs.. Ili :1 141r '°unt " okio4ll Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct. Ex. 4s. lit e 4, 6 per Cent., Ex. 25( C gli o , TWO 0' CLOQE.. b, El, lsa Q 4. . B9 ... et/ 0 . COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. British Columbia. 6 per cent., Dec. 31, 1872.:.. 100 Do. do. 1883.... 100 :num 0v.6 p.c.Ja 1877-81 100 97 90 Do. Ap. o. Feb. Ac Aug 100 97 99 D 0.6 p. o. Mar. tt Sept 100 97 99 Do. Sp. 0. Jan.S&July. lOC 87 89 884 Do. 5 Inscribed stool. 100 80 89 ;ape G.Hope, 6 p 43,187; 100 103, 105 Do.Ap & Oot. 188( 100 105 107 Do. 1894 100 ic6 108 1)0. Jan. & July. 1691.. 100 109 111 2eyion, N0v.1863, 6 p 100 101 104 Do. 1878, do. 100 l(9 112 liaurititts 6 p.cent.lB73 'OO 105 107 Do. 1878 10J 106 109 Do. 1882 100 (C 6 108 -• catal Gov. 6 per cont. 100 l'4 1(6 i.B.Gov. 6 p.c. J a.drJul) 100 98 101 v . S. W. li ov. 5 p 3.,18' 100 18 100 Dv. sp. 648/1 to 1:.:94 100 95 97 9:1 Do. d0.,1888 &upwth 160 94 96 95 lew Zealand 6 p cent 100 105 107 iova Scotia Gov. 6p. sterling, 1876. lOO 99 101 4,ueensland Gcv. 6p. c. 100 104 101 Aus GOY. 6 p. 0.11 68 100 Do. 1.78 3&upward4... 100 107 109 Vto.erov. 6 p.c. Ja.AGJ uly 100 Do. 10 6 p.o. An.&005...i 100 11061 1071106} 1061 1071! 11061 4 BRITISH MINES. 2 'ambrian Consol. Gold 1 Chiverton .•.••• 361 !1 ,Laloru Amalgamated — 3 13 levon G. Cone. (Taoist 1 580 600 Drakewal:s....... , Arn liabasett(lllogan) du 47 49 flast Caradon ..... 1.14.1 19 20 .41ast Cam Brea 3.4.0 611 7 East Grenville 2.7.0. 56 6 East Lovell ... 2.13.6. 141 151 j5l r.. WI Russel (Tavistk. 4.13. , 5 51 (lam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen 60, 5 7 4 Great Laxey, all 19 20 rest Soutn Tolgus... 17t4 16 z 4. Wheal Vor (lielstoe 40 35 37 derod's-Foot 6.13 85 37 Ilingston Downs 1.18.1 4 qargaret (Uny Lelant vi 8 9 ttarke Valley.. .. .• .. • 4.3 o 4 41 4 kt yndy Iron Ore (Lim. 2). 1} I 6 Kangiles.• •• •• • New Seton 2ll CO 70 .orth I)owne ......... North Roskear.. ..... 1v Basset (111044 n 3.1,-.6 16 2 zorth Wheal Crotty . 2.8.0 2i 21 Prosperai 3 lovidenoe(Uny Lelnt. to 6.7 34 36 iouth Caradon(St.Cleez 11 20 540 i.Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.11.1 33 36 stray Park rin Crett t ;6 17 West Basset (Illogan).. 11 7 9 C. radon eLiskeara 0 5 6 West Chiverton West &ton .....e.. t,l .05 215 Whet?! Basset (Mogan, 51 00 93 Wheal Buller(Redruth, 10 9 it WhealLudeott .._ Wheal Mary Ann ;Lien ; 8 13 15 Wheal Beton 586 t 95 200 Wheal T retawney (Lis. 7 18 20 Wheal Union 4 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western, 4 per cent. irred 88 (it. Western, Wt. Midland, Oxford let guaranteed stock, 125 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. North London, 4i per cent., 20 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Midland Bradford pf. stock, 92 FOREIGN RAILWAYS: Great Luxembourg, 1 Sambre and Meuse, 7} South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, ,(iOl FOREIGN . MINES ! Port Philip, 12:1 BANKS. Alliance (lim.), SO 7 Australasia, 68 British and Californian, lim., 3i Hindustan, China, and Japan (Um.), 29$ Imperial Ottoman, l6f London Bink of Mexico and S. America, Jim., London and Brazilian (lim.), 45 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 25i London and.Couuty, _7B London Joint Stook, Ditto, new, issued at 30 pm., 36 London and South African, 22 Standard of British South Africa (lim+), 23 Union of Australia, 541 I MISCELLANEOUS. Contract Corporation, lim., 2f Credit Fonder and Mobilivr of England, Ditto (.0), 5 Fore-street Warehouse, 1im.,1191 Home and C ,lonial A ssurance, lim., 6i Hudson's Bay, Imperial Mercantile Credit A sso., lim., 8 International Financial society, lira., 7f Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), 81, Joint Stoc k Discount, /National Discount Company, lim. 15r I Ottoman Financial Association, lira., 61 Telegrat h Construe. and Maintenance, Um., 3 The Price of Gold. - The quotation of gold at Paris is about 3 per mine pin., and the short exchange on London is 25.20 per £1 :sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 17s. lOid. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is about 2-10th sper cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By adviccs from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per mark and . the short exchange on London is 13.41 per £1 sterna -4'. Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about 1-10th per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is abut 263 per cent., and the premium on gold is 141 percent. At these rates there is a small profit on the importation of go'd from the United States. Extraordinary Libel Case. DUBLIN, Tuesday Morning. One of the most extraordinary trials which have ever taken place in Ireland was commenced yesterday before Chi f.Justice Monahan and a special jury. The case is at heating in the Court of Common Pleas, the same court in which the story of the Yelverton marriage was first related to a jury and the public. Many fancy that the present affair is not without features ct resemblance to that celebrated case; but however this may be, there is no doubt that the interest f in the trial now pending bids fair to outrival the interest fait at the time when the town rang with the name of Theresa Longworth and her matrimonial wrongs. The title of the pending case is Travers v. Wilde. It may be premised that the plaintiff is a young lady of about 25. She is the daughter of Dr. Travers, who holds the situation of sub-librarian in Marsh's Library, and who has gained con siderable fame as a scholar of antiquarian tastes. There are two dt fJndants, Sir 'Wm. Wilde and his wifs. Lady Wilde is —nominally, at least—the principal defendant. It was stated in court that her husband's name had been joined with hers merely for the sake of complying with legal forms; but it will be seen that Sir William W ilde occupies the most pro minent place in the proceedings, so far as they have gone. Sir William Wilde was formerly Doctor Wilde, and re ceived the henour of knighthood very recently, partly in acknowledgment of his high reputation as an oculist and aurist, and partly because he had been one of the census commissioners. Lady Wilde is an authoress in her way, and has written several poetic pieces under the name of " Speranza." These, then, are the parties to the action, which is one of libel. Mary Josephine Travers, spinster, seeks to recover £2,000 damages from William Wilde, knight, and Jane Francesca, his wife, for a libel written by the female defendant to the father of the plaintiff. This is the letter which Lady Wilde sent to Dr Travers about his daughter Mary— Tower Bray, May 6. Sir—You may not be aware of the disreputable conduct of your daughter at Bray, where she consorts with all the low newspaper boys in the place, employing them to disco. minate offmsive piricartio in which thy manw is given, anti also tracts, in which she makes it appear that she has had an intrigue with Sir William Wilde. If she chooses to dis grace herself that is not my afflir ; but as her object in insulting me is the hope of extorting money, for which she has applied to Sir William Wilde, with threats of more annoyance if not given, I think it right to inform you that no threat or additional insult shall ever extort money for her from our hands. The wages of disgrace she has so basely treated for and demanded shall never be given to 9:1 I her. JANE F. WILDE.9S To Dr Travers. To this charge, which the summons and plaint repre sented as a libel on the character and chastityof Miss Travers, the defendants pleaded several defences, the substance of some of which it may be necessary to give, as they are not only very peculiar, but go a great way towards explaining —from the defendants' point of view, of course—the nature of the action. After the ordinary defences that the letter is no libel, that the words were not used in a defamatory sense, that there was no publication as alleged, and that, if there was, the publication was privileged, there is ano ther plea, which declares that the plaintiff, having taken umbrage at some supposed slights put upon her by Lady Wilde. set herself to insult and annoy the female defendant in various ways. Among other means adopted towards that end, it was alleged that Miss Travers had published " a certain scandalous and immodest pamphlet, under the title of Florence Boyle Price ; or, a 'Warning, by Speranza,' thereby causing the public to believe that such publication was the composition of Lady Wilde,who had previously been known as an authoress under the name of Speran za' in which she (Miss Travers), under the assumed name of Florence Boyle Prier, would make it appear that a person therein styled Dr. Qnilp (whom the plaintiff afterwards admitted to have been intended for Sir W. Wilde) had made an at tempt upon her virtue; and that, in furtherance of her design, she caused divers doggerel verses and additional articles to be inserted in a newspaper called the Ihrblin Weekly Adves User, signing some of them with the assumed name of Speranza.' " It was also alleged that Miss Tra vers had sent several insulting letters to Lady Wilde, and had endeavoured to expose Sir W, Wilde to ridicule and contempt, by issuing placards and handbills against him on the occasion of his lecturing in the Metropolitan Hall, to the Young Men's Christian Association; that the pla cards bore the words, "Sir Wm. Wilde and Speranza;'' and That the plaintiff employed wen to ring hand bells, so as to direct attention to them—that she had further "caused divers persons to sell copies of the same immodest pam phlets, falsely alleging it to be the intended lecture of Sir William Wilde, thereby causing great diaturbance and confusion at the place where the lecture was to be de livered;" and that she subsequently invited public atten tion to this circumstance in the newspapers. The defence proceeded to allege that the pamphlet had been offered for sale, and sent to the house at Bray, where the Wilde family were residing, as the plaintiff would "have it to be believed that she had had an intrigue with Sir William Wilde." It was also averred that on several occasions, before the writing of the alleged libel, the plaintiff had applied to the defendants and " threatened more annoyance if her requests were not acceded to." Lady Wilde further pleaded her bona fide belief that the plaintiff "had disgraced herself," and that her object was to extort money, and that, in order to induce her father, Dr Travers, to use his parental autho rity over her, she (Lady Wilde) had written the letter without malice, and in the hope of stopping the insulting proceedings; and her ladyship declared that she believed the statements contained in the letter to be true. Such, in substance, were the pleadings, as opened by Mr Quin. Serjeant Armstrong stated the plaintiff's case at con siderable length. After adverting to the social position of the parties concerned, the learned gentleman said that in 1854, the plaintiff, being threatened with deafness, was re commended by her physician to consult Sir William Wilde, who enjoyed a high dharacter as an aurist. She was then ' about 19 years of age, and most interesting, both by reason of personal beauty and mental culture." Sir William pro scribed for her, but would not take any fee, and an acquaint ance sprang up between Miss Travers and the Wilde family, end she often visited at their house when they had com pany, When she had first seen Sir William Wilde hp lived in Westland-row, but he afterwards removed to Merrione square, a more aristocratic quarter of the city. Sir William had made Miss Travers a present of a season-ticket for the Exhibition in 1859, and she used to go to the theatre with his children. The learned sergeant "did not mean to say that at this period Sir William ever entertained any inten tion of assaulting the virtue of the plaintiff, but, no doubt, an intercourse extending over seven years gradually exerted its influence, and raised in his mind a guilty intent." Sergeant Sullivan (for the defendants) here interposed. His learned friend was making the action—.which was vir tually one against Lady Wilde, with her husband joined for form's sake—a vehicle for an attack on Sir William Wilde. The male defendant was "not in any way placed in a position to answer any insinuations that might be thrown out against him." Lady Wilde, in reply to the allegation that she imputed unchastity to the plaintiff, denied that ever she had done so, having merely written to her father with the object stated in the pleadings, 'Sir William had nothing to do with the matters which the jury had to try. In reply to Sergeant Armstrong's o b ser. vation that all the statements of the plaintiff would be proved in evidence, Sergeant Sullivan said that at the proper time the defendant would show that the charges were untrue. Sergeant Armstrong, in reply said that the libellous letter was justified on the ground that the plaintiff had "made scandalous charges against Sir William Wilde, which were not founded on truth." He (Sergeant Armstrong) had a right'to go into the whole case, and to show that the plain tiff's pamphlet "charged, not an intrigue, but an intent of a very different kind "—and as regards the demand for money, he wished to let them see that Sir 'William Wilde was the person forcing the money on her, instead of her ap • plying to him. Sergeant Sullivan—l do not mean to say that you are not to show that the defences are untrue, but what I say is, that the plaintiff comes hero charging Lady Wilde with libelling her by a charge of unchastisy, and she now comes with this case that she is unchaste. Sergeant Armstrong—lf she was violated by Wilde in his private study, and refuses to receive any more of his licen tious embraces, is she to be branded as a prostitute ? Chief Justice Monahan—l cannot stop the case for the plaintiff. Sergeant Sullivan—Very well, my lord. After the last observations of Sergeant Armstrong, he may go on. Some further conversation having ensued, Sergeant Armstrong went on wish his statement. He read a number of letters to show the progress of the ac quaintanceship between Sir William Wilde and the plaintiff. So long ago as 1859 Sir William used to criticise kiss Tra vers's dress, saying he did not like a bonnet, or something of that kind; and he was accustomed to give her small sums of money, which the plaintiff took as loans to supply her with dress befitting her position. There were a vast number of letters written from Sir William Wilde to the lady. One of them referred to a burn which she had in her neck, and another to the paring of a corn, and others were written in a half-fatherly, half-quizzing style. The male defendant is over fifty years of age. However, as Sergeant Armstrong stated, Miss Travers.had her suspicions aroused in the winter of 1861. In the October of that year, so the learned gentleman proceeded to say, "there was a distribution of premiums for the Queen's University, in St. Patrick's Hall, Dublin Castle, and Miss Travers was there with Dr Wilde; he asked her to go and escorted her home. Well, the next day he met her iu Westland -tow, and he said to her, in a very marked way, ' Did you observe anything yesterday?' She said, I did not,' Did you no tice my carriage, as we were coming along the street, com ing after us ?" I did not.' I will not repeat the identical words he used. Sho will give them herself; but the sub. stance was that they hal been watched by Mrs Wilde in that carriage, and in fact that Mrs Wilde was, in her own mind, distrustful of what was going on. From the lips of Dr Wilde himself Miss Travers first heard of such a cir cumstance. She unquestionably was a little alarmed, and it 'struck her that she should be more circumspect; but he made as light of it when he saw the effect it had on her as possible, and he gave her a book. He said to her, Look in that book and you will understand what I mean.' She took the book, and found it contained a letter asking her to see him at the hospital he was professionally attending, but she did not go. She saw him shortly afterwards, when he asked her did she want money, but she said not; she wanted to have his 'reference to Lady Wilde' cleared up. She gave him to understand that unless this were done all acquaint ance between them must cease. He wrote to her—" Don' be angry. lam sick, I assure you. I will leave the money for you, 105, at Shr.ridan's" (this was a shop where parcels were left iu the ordinary course), at about 11 o'clock, You will make me curse you if you don't take it." After wards he explained that in speaking as he had done he had been only joking, and asked her to come and dine with Lady Wilde and the family, and she did go. Matters went on till February, 1862, when one day, as he was examining her ear in his study, "she was amazed and confounded when, most suddenly, he clasped her in his arms, and refused to re lease her till she had promised to call him William." " I will not let you go," says he, " till you promise to call me William." He said he would detain her till she said, "Please, William, let me go;" but t. he refused, and got away Lam the house. Ho then wrote letters to her, which she returned to h!m unopened. The drift of them, when it was ascertained, was that she should " not be making mountains out of mole-hills." and that the clasping of her in his arms meant no harm, and that it was unjust for her to harbour any suspicion against him; and he also talked about being miserable, fretting about Miss Travers, and more to that effect. She felt it necessary to see Sir William Wilde about a letter which had been opened, as she thought, before it reached her, and he also invited her to the house to see one of his children. Subsequently Sir William Wilde " supplied her with some money to go to Australia, and a ticket was taken at Dublin ;" but when she:went to Liverpool to embark there was some difficulty about her berth, and she returned. Omitting a great deal of counsel's statement—omitting all about the little letters that Sir William wrote to her, tho dresses he bought for her, and Lady Wilde's " petulant remark," on one occasion, when she asked Miss Travers, "where do you want to take my husband to now must hasten to the most startling part of Sergeant Arm strong's speech—" On Thursday, Oct. 11, 1862, Miss Tra vers, in obedience to an invitation she received from him, waited on him in his study. She was there about half-past one o'clock. He made no allusion to any previous waver. cation in reference to the publication in the letter or any thing else, but he at all events expressed great concern about the mark of a burn which she had across her throat. He removed her bonnet for the purpose apparently of looking at her throat, She was in the habit of concealing that slight defect by wearing a necklet of black velvet, and he put his hand into it, with his knuckles next her throat, fastening his knuckles in the velvet band.. He pressed against her very tightly, so forcibly that she said, You are suffocating,me." I will,' said he, 'suffocate you, .I cannot help it.' Gentlemen, I will leave it to herself to tell you what followed. But I will tell you what he said after st hat followed. I felt it my duty to be most particular in ascertaining what she was prepared to swear as to that interview and the assault upon her. The next thing, gen tlemen, after the horrible ponsternation and agitation into which she was thrown—the next thing, when she recovered consciousness, was this; she found him throwing cold water on her face. He was opposite to her, with a tumbler of water in his hand. He cried to her ' Oh, don't close your eyes ; look up once more. He always had a little wine in his study. He held wine to her lips. She was in that state her mouth was tightly compressed in the agitation of the occasion. He could not get her moutk opened, He then sponged her face with water, and what did he say I wish the devil or the angel Gabriel would make her open her mouth. (Laugh ter.) Ho said, Rise, I beseech you, for my preservation and your own.' H's shook ker. He begged her not to stare so wildly at him. ' speak one word,' ho cried, 'speak one word, for God's sake. I know,' said he, 'lam a ruffian— but it was not premeditated.' Gentlemen, on hearing those extraordinary and frightful expressions, she at tempted to rise from where she was. He offered het wine again, but her teeth were still clenched, and he said, I will pour the wine on you if you won't take it. lam horribly frightened,' he said, and you must make me a promise. Have sense, or the first person you meet you will tell, and it will be ruin. lam in your power and you are in mine. Do, for once in your life, do what I tell you —keep secret, and all will be well. I know all you could say —but, oh 1 spare me. I aft in your power. • Stab me if you like, I know you hate no. I sometimes wish to God I could hate. I swore I would new touch your hand twain. I struggled against fate, whilst you thought you were run ning away from me. I struggled against the fate that was hurrying me on when you thought you were escaping. Don't prove yourself a mad woman now, but attend to what I tell you, I must be obeyed. Have faith and confidence in me, and you may remedy the past Australian freak and the talk it has given rise to. It led to a great deal of talk. You would be surprised to hoar all that was said about it. It you destroy me, you injure yourself forever. If you knew all the mischief you would do to yourself, you would be glad to follow my advice now, Promise to be quiet fur a few days. Keep up appearances for my salvation and your own. I fear I cannot trust you out of my sight for fear you will do yourself and me irreparable mischief." Tho remainder of the learned counsel's statement referred to the young lady's despair, the efforts of Sir William to keep her quiet, and his pressing upon her money, So., which she on every occasion returned. The letters of Sir William Wilde, after the affair in the study, were occasion ally of a very melancholy character, and at other times rhapsodical in their protestations of friendship. The lehrned counsel had not concluded when the Court adjourned last evening, DUBLIN, Tuesday Night. This morning Sergeant Armstrong concluded his address for the plaintiff. Miss Travers was then called and examined. She de posed to the outrage upon her by defendant in his study, as described by counsel in the opening speech. She was still under examination when the Court rose. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day. OLD COURT. (Before Mr Baron Pigott.) THE MURDER IN CLERKENWELL. Alfred Thomas Jackson, aged 21, a working jeweller, was placed of the bar charged with the wilful murder of Francis Plowden Roberts, an apprentice to Mx French, wholesale' jeweller, Newcastle-place, Clerkenwell. The prisoner was also indicted on the Coroner's inquisition. - The prisoner appeared deeply affected. At the close of the case for the prosecution. Mr Sleigh then proceeded to address the jury for the prisoner. He contended that it was a case of mistaken identity. Further, that if the prisoneewas, in their opinion, the person who inflicted the wounds, a quarrel had taken place between the two young men, and that the blows were inflicted in hot blood, the crime was then reduced to manslaughter. . A number of witnesses were called, who gave the prisoner a most excellent character. The jury had not returned their verdict when we went to prose. CRYSTAL PALACE,—ONE SHILLING DAY.--Yes• terday the admissions on payment were 654; ditto by seabext tickets, 818—total, 1,382, Funeral of M, Mocquard, Subjoined are the orations pronounced over the, grave of M. Mocquard by Marshal Valliant and M. de la Guerroniere at the funeral on Monday last. The former spoke as follows : " The Minister of the Emperor's Household cannot re main silent before this tomb, which has just received one of the oldest, one of the most constant and most useful ser vants of the Emperor and the empire. In view of the great events which have already illustrated a great reign, grati tude and admiration each day bring forth new and sincere instances of devotedness. The devotion of M. Mocquard had taken precedence of all these. Its origin is to be traced to the first days of youth, and, far from being exhausted by its duration, strengthened, on the contrary, by time it will remain as an example ( f unalterable attachment and historical fidelity. Is not, in fact, the name of M, Mocquard the most complete personification of fidelity to us all ? Fidelity was his creed, hie reli gion, the worship ( f his whole lire. He practised it with ardour, with energy, without any personal preoccupa pation, and without any other ambition than that ( f adding to the glory of his sovereign and the greatness( f his coun try. Like another, better than another, he could aspire, no doubt,•to fulfil high public duties in the Government; but faithful to his confidential post, he exalted himself by keep ing it. Other voices less affected than my own will, here or elsewhere, render homage to sound merit, to profound learn- ing, to a charming mind, to a character at once amiable and serious. At this time, at this place, I only wished to re. member the qualities of a noble heart in bringing to him who is no more the last farewell of the well-beloved sove- reign from whom on his bed of death he but now received the last embrace. Adieu, Alocquard I We weep for thee in envying thee. The sweetest consolation has been given to your family; the most precious tribute has been paid to your memory—the Emperor has said to your children, ' He was my friend.'" This oration, pronounced in a voice choked with sobs, produced a great impression on all around the tomb. M. de la Gaerroniere, senator, then spoke as fol;ows " Gentlemen, I have received the painful mission of bringing to this tomb the expression of my colleagues' re grets. In order to impart to them an accent more worthy of the sympathies of the Senate and of the eminent man who is their object, I have only to associate them with the noble grief which descends on this coffin from the throne as a continuation of the friendship which, After having honoured the life of M. Mocquard, piously attaches itself to his memory. The Emperor now weeps as a friend the faith ful servant whom he has so long treated as a confidant of his thoughts ; and I have the right to say that these tears of a sovereign are still more precious than his favours. In the intimacy of supreme power there is a privilege more rare than that of gaining the confidence of him whom one serves—it is that of partaking of his heart, aid of leaving a great blank after having merited a high fortune. M. Mocquard has but barely passed through the ranks of the Senate. We had scarcely time to see him there when the nature of the duties which he fulfilled, and which made It is the most perfect guide to the turf that has ever emanated from the press. The present issue is a great im provement on former editions, having been compressed into nearly half the size, although containing more useful infor mation to sporting men than formerly. Besides the win ners of every race for the year 1864, the present volume Contains all the closed nominations for 1865-6 ; Grand National Steeple Chase Rules; rules concerning horse raciag ; New Laws of Betting; Lengths of Courses ; Win ning Jockeys in 1861, and an alphabetical List of Jockeys and Trainers in England, Ireland, and France. The price is only 2s 6J, and we hope that the Messrs. Wright will be amply rewarded for their exertions in supplyingthe pub lic with a want long felt on the turf, No sporting man ought to be without a copy. AQUATICS. GREAT ROWING MATCH FOR £2OO. A scullers' race for £2OO to)k place yesterday between David Coombes, son of the celebrated Robert Coombes, the ex-champion of the Thames, and Frank Kilsby, from Put ney to Mort:ake. The race was one of much importance in a sporting point of view; the amount of speculation it had given rise to at Tattersall's and elsewhere, and the fact that the backers of the men were well-known gentlemen upon the turf, com bined with other circumstances to invest this match with an amount of interest not ordinarily falling to the lot of smilers' races upon the Thames, which was amply demon strated by the amount of money depending upon the issue and the vast assemblage of the spectators. The prestige attached to the name of Robert Coombes has been, up to this time, well maintained by his son, who:wto the triumphant actor in the scene of yesterday, considering his youth, as he, like his opponent, has not numbered more than 22 summers. Besides other races, he won, while an apprentice, the Thames National coat and badge, and the City of London similar prize, to which was added, when just out of the indentures, Doggett's coat and badge last August. _ Kilsby, independent of other races, has successfully con tended twice against May, and three times against Spencer, rnd against Wise and Biffen. He also rowed in the Doggett's coat and badge race last August, and it was from that event that the present match emanated ; for although Coombea, we have before stated, was the winner by 10 lengths, it was considered that he had been advantaged in the early part of the contest by fortuitous circumstances, and that Kilsby, who rowed ascend to him, would, under a more favourable state of things, very likely have carried -off Out much civied award of victory. _ _ _ Both men were put into training two months before the race—liilsby at Mr Salter'e, the Feathers, Wandsworth, and Coombes with Harry Kelly, the ex-champion, at the Belle, Putney ; and both made as much progress as their most ardent admirers could wish until Friday last, when Kilsby unfortunately caught a cold, which settled in his throat, and although every attention was paid to him, still he came to the poet with a bad ulcerated sore throat, al though in every other respect he was in splendid condition. This considerably altered the state of the odds, which, raving before been slightly on Coombes, now became 7 to 4 and 2to lon him. Kilsby came to the scratch at lOst, and Coombes at Sat 101 b, being in the most perfect form. So much interest had been imported into the race, that six steamboats, besides several tugs, were densely crowded, as were also the towing path and sporting houses along the river bank. _ _ Citizen P conveyed the officials—Mr Charles Newnham actitts as referee, George Hammerton umpire for Coombes, and Mr Salter for Kilsby. Harry Kelly showed in the head of Coombea' cutter, and George Drewitt in that of Kilsby. At 10 minutes past two they went to their stations, Kilsby winning the toss, and in .a few moments they were off to a level start. Kilsby had the IN; fl a moment afterwards, row ing a long steady stroke ; but Coo: 121 )es, although somewhat flurried, had caught him at the Star IL:d Garter; and even thus early Kilsby showed signs of distress f ,while Coombes, on the contrary, was pulling away with the u; most game and confidence. Just beyond this Coombes led by halt a length, and then Kilsby putting on a spurt, came up neatly level, and they rowed an interesting race nearly mid-stream, as a tug persistently drove them out. When clear of this, Coombes again led by half a length, end continued to draw in front till the Bishop's Creek (half a mile), where Coombes came more into the direct course, end in doing so nearly fouled. Kilsby put on a spurt at the same moment, and Coombes wise'y rowed out , while Kilsby, also pulling his left, fouled Coombes' stern, and both claimed the foul. Kilsby stopping a second, Coombes drew clear, and then in the easiest possible manner began to leave his opponent be hind, and at the Crab Tree led by three lengths. Between there and the bridge Kilsby pulled very pluckily, and re covered a little, but under Hammersmqh-bridge there were four lengths between them, and Coombes was going still further ahead without the least effort. Through Corney Reach he exhibited in his fine spurts all the old form of his father. At Barnes-bridge there were eight or ten lengths between them, and Coombes reached the Ship at Mortlake winner by 200 yards. Time, 25 min. 15 see. MORMON TEMPLE AND TABERNACLE.—A eons respondent of the St. Louis _Republican, writing from Great Salt Lake City, gives the following description of the projected Mormon temple and tabernacle :—" That which strikes every observer of the temple is the remarkable solidity of the stone work. It appears to be laid there to remain a thousand years. furnishing en unyielding support to the building that is to rest upon it. I saw an outside view of the upper portion. The style of architecture is somewhat novel. The Lout view shows three towers, the centre more elevated than those at the side. The rear end presents a view of three towers also, the side walls being strengthened with power;ul abutments covered with pinnacles. The walls are lofty, and the entire air of the building, as represented in the view I saw, is imposing. There is no excess of orna ment. All is substantial, dignified, and impressive. The building is not for the use of the congregations of the people, but for the priestly ordinances of the church. The people in their assemblages will meet in another building in the rear—the tabernacle. This is projected on a large scale, and on a very peculiar design. It is to be an oval building. I was told that the interior would cotrespond to the shape of an egg, At present 52 massive abutments of solid masonry, 10ft by 4ft, show the exterior line of the structure. From the top of these sham-lento the oval roof will spring. The floor will be oval downwards, seated with rising seats as an amphitheatre. There will be no close-built walls. As the building is intended for vast congregations, ventilation and light ate looked to, and the building will be pettily all windows and doors. It covers a space of 225 ft deep by 1751 t wide, and is calcu lated to hold 10,000 people. Here the teachers and elders will enlighten the people, and their united souls will go up. The cost of these buildings must be immense ; but all is contributed by the members of the Mormon church in labour and money, Their system of tithing is adequate to the work. When I asked, What is the estimated cost of the temple and tabernacle ?' I was informed with a smile, We do not ealculate . things in that way. When it is de cided to do anything among us, it is done without a calcu lation of cost, each doing his part.' I am informed that President Young himself is the superintendent and actual architect cf the buildings. Every stone in them he has inspected and measured 7ith tape-line. and assigned lo its London, Nov. 29. Gentlemen,—ln terms of your instructions, I have now the honour to submit the results of the valuation of the assets and liabilities of the Company, as at the 30th of Sep tember, 1864. At that date I find, after deducting lapsed and discontinued assurances, there remained in existence on the books 2,596 policies, assuring, with bonuses already de clared, £748,349 18s 4d, and yielding an annual revenue of £24,114 14s Id. In making the valuation the greatest care has been exercised, and every item has been compared and carefully checked. As in all former valuations the Carlisle rate of mortality has been adopted, and 3 per cent. has been, assumed as the rate at which the company's funds will prove. The final results of the several calculations, combined withthe cash assets and liabilities, are as follows :—Assets : Present value of future premiums, £363,950 Ils 2d—invest merits on securities, £86,466 17s Bd—lnterest due on ditto to 30th September, 1864, £l,443—cash deposited with bankers, £ ' 2,ooo—cash on current account with ditto, and stamps on hand, £1,734, 13s 11—X455,596 2s 9d. Liabilities : Present value of sums assured, £352,799 is 3d—reserve for liability on investments by depositors, re-assurances, rent, and immediate annuities, £33,306 2s sd— shareholders' capital, £19,647 Ils—interest and dividends due 30th Sept., 1864, £1,285 7s—claims ascertained, but not due, £2,630 7s 11d. Total, £109,668 9s 7d ; balance, being assets over liabilities, £45,926 13s 2d. I consider the valuation a very satisfactory one, and I respectfully sug gest that with the above figures it would be well to com pare and review the results obtained from the last quinquene nial valuation made in 1861. It 4 will be seen from that valuation that a surplus was obtained sufficient for the declaration of a bonus to the shareholders of £2015s Id per cent. on the sums paid on their shares, ever and above 5 per cent. per annum, free of income-tax; and a cash bonus to the participating policy-holders of 2.5 per cent. on tha aggregate amount of premiums paid by them in the pre.. views five years, which was equal to the reversionary bonus ranging from 21 to 84 per cent. according to age. The following statistical information may be considered interesting :—Notwithstanding the company has completed its 18th year, I find the average duration of each policy is 4i years; The average agekf persons assured under whole life policies with profits is 39.073 years, and without profits, 42.817. The rate of interest received on investments dur ing the year averages lOs 5d per cent. ; and this fact should be kept in view, when it is considered that only 3 per cent. has been adopted in the valuation. Had the valuation been made on the assumption that the funds of the company would improve at the rate of 4, or even 31 per cent., the assets over liabilities would - have been considerably increased. Although the claims are heavier than in formes years, I do not consider them excessive ; it so happens that they have fallen on several policies of large amount. It must, however, be satisfactory to the directors that they have been enabled to capitalise upwards of 32 per cent. on the year's transactions. After satisfying all claims, a balance of cash assets remained on the books of the com pany, at the 30th September, 1864, equal to 44182 per cent. of the entire premiums received on existing policies. In conclusion, I have to express to you my congratulations on the sound and prosperous state of the company.—l am, gentlemen, ;your ,obedient servant, D. ItVGILLITRAT, Actuary. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, congratulated the meeting on the success of the society during the year about to close. The report entered so minutely into details that nothing was left him to allude tu. However, there was one important fact not mentioned in the report, and that was that during the year they had added nearly £B,OOO to the capital. Mr GALSWORTIIY said he had great pleasure in seconding the motion. The resolution was then put to the meeting and, carried unanimously. The retiring directors were reelected, and the proceedings terminated with a cordial vote of thanks to the chairman and the other.ofacers of the company. SHARE MARKET2.—Tnis day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOO&S. Share( Railways. t p a i d ) Closing i Business Price. done. 13.14. Bir.. Wol., and Str. Val all at Blythe and Tyne. st Bristol and Exeter at Caledonian lOO 130 131 50 Cork and Bandon a:l 20 Do CornwallAi A ~ all 6 7 10 gets_ no div 1 all 10 Do. B 1 4. 'n." (I P an ' haB all been paid to B. 50 Dublin & Belfast June. all 34 16 $5 Dun.,Perth,&Ab. Juno. all 16 17 at Edinburgh & Glasgow. 100 90 92 st Glasg. and S. Western. 100 106 108 st Great Eastern, Ord. stk 100 47 48 47; st Ditto A stock - at Ditto East Anglian sti 100 71 81 at GreatNorthof Scotland 100 at Great Northern lOO 133 131 at Do A stook lOO 155 156 1551 st Do Bdo st Gt. S. an .1 W. of ire] an i 1 100 16 88 at Great Western,Original 100 79 714 74 I st Do Str Val mut. stouai 100 8t . Do. South Wales st Do. West Mid. --Oxtoref 100 57 59 st Do Newport 100 44 46 at Do Hereford 100 100 1t,2 at Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 116 JIN 1161 at London and Blaokwall 100 82 84 at Lon., Brightot S. Coast 100 104 105 st Lon., Chat., and Dover 100 37 39 37 at Lou. & North Western 100 1181 119 1198 204 at Lon. & So , ,th Western 100 97 119 at Man., Shet, & Lincoln. 100 651 664 68 50 Maryport and Carlisle. all 121 Do 4 shares all st Metropolitan all 123 ;21 at Midland at Do Binning. & Derby 100 106 ,08 50 Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland all $5 Do. 4 shares - 26 Mid Kent ...... all at North British at Edin., Perth, & Dundee 100 25 i 7 at Nth. Eastern—Berwiot 100 113 114 1134 t 26 Do, G.N.E. purchase 16.13.4 st Do Leeds lOO 7;1 724 at Do York st Do Carlisle lOO -- 25 Do. Stook. & Darling all 38 39 26 Do do 1855-58 l9 11 12 p 25 Do do 186(.41 at North London 10 Do New ..." 10 Do New, 1884 at North Staffordshire .. all 79 80 80 10 N. and S. %V. Junction all of 114 at Scottish Central at Scot. N. E., Aber. stook 100 st Do Scot. Mld. stock lOO 10 Shrews, and Welohpool all at Shropshire Union at South Devon lOO 41J 43 at South Eastern 20 Staines,Wok.,andlVok all 8 9 at. Taff Vale.. 10 Do C 3 34 44 I, at 'Vale of Neath st Waterford & Kilkenny' 100 at West Cornwall lOO 38 40 at W. Hartlepool Har.,9,R ! 100 Sock ERE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14, 1864. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary and a Special Jury.) APPLETON V. APPLETON AND STONE. The rehearing of this case was resumed this morning by the examination of witnesses for the defence. The first witness called was Anne Caution, who said she was a monthly nurse, and that on the 17th of December, 1861, she was engaged to attend upon Mrs Stone at Exeter. .The lady was unexpectedly confined on the 2d of January in the following year, There was no preparation for the event. The witness was closely examined as to whether the infant was full grown, but she said she could not tell. Ann Martin, another nurse, said she saw the lady and her infant. The child was in the nurse's arms when she sent in. Mrs. Stone and the nurse asked her to look at the child. She did 89. She opened it and examined at it. (Laughter.) That is, she "ondone" its clothes and looked at it. It op peered to her to be a seven months child. She felt positive it was so. The Judge—Yod did not see Mrs. Stone until a month after her confinement ? Witness—Not until a month after. The Judge Ordinary—Can you tell a month after the birth of the child whether it is a seven months child or not P Witness—Yes, I can. There are various appear• ances_to enable me to do so. Cross-examined—She had no doubt about her ability to tell the age of an infant. She never told Dr Bishop that Mrs Stone's conduct towards Mr Appleton was shameful. She would swear that whether Dr Bishop was in court or not. Susan Marks said she was for some time in the service of Captain and Mrs. Stone. She went in October, 1859, The evidence of this witness was in many important particulars a direct contradiction of that given by the witness Harris examined for the petitioner. The case is not expected to conclude to day. JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE FRIVY COUNCIL. (Present the Lord Chancellor, Lord Cranworth, Lord Kingedown, and Sir John Romilly.) IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF THE LORD BISHOP OF NATAL AND THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Mr. James, of the Chancery bar, this morning opened the arguinents on the appeal of the Bishop (Colenso) of Natal. The learned gentleman was proceeding when we went to press. reserve the first duty of his political conduct, did not allow us to hear that voice which eminent successes at the bar seemed to have destined for Parliamentary contests. But if his presence amongst us was not made known:by his par ticipation in our debates, it had none the less a great signi ficance. This dignity of a senator, which the Emperor ac corded to him when public opinion had already marked him out for it, was not only the consummation of a career which, before it was devoted to the service of die State,had been so deeply shaken by all the agitations of our c,;ntem porary events; it was also the consecration of quite an orcii:r of ideas and sentiments which characterise him whose loss we deplore. What, in fact, does M. Mocquiird represent in the diverse phases of this long lifa which has ended too quickly ? He represents, gentlemen, three great things : devotion to a noble cause, patriotism of which it is the in spiration, and political spirit of which it is the moderator. At an epoch still near to us in point of time, although it is already far removed by events, when the First Empire was only an heroic souvenir, end when the Second seemed only a generous illusion, M. Mocquard was one of that small group of men who had preserved their political faith as a religion. All was against them—facts, opinion, fortune, and that future, which we have seen to develop since in a manner so sudden and so providential, did not even appear on the horizon as a hope, They had the honour to be the 'first, almost the only ones, and, through all trials, with a confidence which nothing could shake, they waited the day when they saw themselves supported by eight millions of suffrages. Amidst this isolation, of which men like M. Mocquard have so nobly accepted the disgrace, there was, however, a latent force which sustained them, and which connected them with an entire change of opinion, the source of which was in the patriotic impulse of a great people, but the final result of which. was hidden behind the veil of the suture. What was Bonapartism before it became a Go vernment ? It was the memory of our glory, and the protest of the national conscience against the hum liation of our disasters. It was an :aspiration ill•defined, but ac- ive, powerful, auxins, irresistible towards a political situAtion more worthy of our history of fourteen centu ries, and of the greatness which unceasingly nourishes and enlarges the magnificent movement of civilisation and progress of which the imperishable date 1788 gave the signal. These aspirations are realised, and it was reserved to M. Mocquard to be associated more intimately than any other person with the acts of this policy, the triumph of which ha had foreseen. Here his part changed, and his militant habits gave way to very dif ferent duties. The companion of the exile, the man of action, he, who had quitted an official position the more freely to convey his homage and his counsels to misfor tune, became the intimate .confidant of the prince to whom the will of France gave the throne which foreign force alone had wrested from the founder of his dynasty. It does not behove me to retrace here all the tact, propriety, persover• ance, enlightened devotion, modest discretion, and active vigilance which the chief of the Emperor's cabinet hag displayed in this mission so difficult and important, which placed him so near to the mind of the Sovereign, an which could cause his legitimate influence to be felt in the councils of the Government from so high a position. He pretended nothing. He effaced himself systematically, his devotion absorbed his personality. He was one of those who possess the privilege of penetrating into the imperial intimacy, open to him at all times; more than any person he lived in that elevated region on which the regards of the world are fixed, and from which proceed SD many decisive impulses. Well, when he left this region it was to resume his simple and affable manners. Casting from him all importance, he did not assume superiority over any pers )n, in order to be more on a level with all those whose wishes he listened to, and who confided to him their ideas, their interests, end even their ambitions. A distinctive trait of his nature, and which characterises the manner in which he fulfilled his duties, is that he never took up the subject without the de sin of doing good. When he could be useful he was anxious and ardent; but if it was necessary to speak ill of any per son, if he had to make his sovereign acquainted with those studied malevolences, those veiled calumnies, those envious disparagements which seek to surprise or to deceive the good faith of Powers he was dumb, and his cold and digni fied attitude disconcerted those intrigues, which he never favoured. Such is the man, gentlemen, whom the Empe ror placed amongst us as a personification of that patriotism which honours public life, and of that moderation which restrains its impulses. Nature had endowed him with her most amiable gifts. She had bestowed on him personal graces, a great power of expression, an exquisite taste in literary matters, and that temperance which, in imposing moderation on the mind, imparts to it more vigour. His intelligence, formed and nourished in the study of the in comparable models of the true and the good, was not applied to those conceptions which reflect literary re nown on a name. He concentrated it, he meditated on it, and in order that he might more completely devote himself, he in some sort renounced his personal elevation. What more striking example can there be of all that is noble in a devotion so loyally inspired, and in an ambition governed by duty ? M. Mocquard lived more happily, more satisfied, than if he had been more powerful; and at this supreme moment he is as much honoured as if he had filled the highest offices of the State. This procession, this numerous attendance, this homage, this emotion by which we are all oppressed—the presence of these illustrious per sons, the eloquent voice of the Minister of the Emperor which we have heard—does not all this tell you that which most elevates a man is his character, and not his official position? That which best concludes such a life would have been wanting if he had not been attached to those sublime truths which purify the soul in raising it to God. Yes, I say it with a deep feeling of consolation and hope— in this nature, the graceful and frivolous outward part of which seemed apparently to cover a sort of scepticism, there was yet that rpark of sacred fire which never permits spiri tual beliefs to extinguish themselves. This was well seen at that last hour when an Illustrious priest went to receive his last confidential communications. His first word, ut tered before his family, was a protest against this odious materialism,: which vainly tries to overtake in us the Divine principle of immortality. This was an act of faith which fortified him against death, and which he has left as a consolation to his family. And when the venerable curate of the Madeleine administered to him the last con solations of religion his mind still recovered its energy amidst agonising sufferings, and applauded this grand thought of the greatest of Christian orators, of the writer whom he admired the most, perhaps—of Bossuet, thus branding the believers in Atheism They see nothing, they understand nothing; they even have not the incaus of establishing the nullity which they hope for after this life, and this miserable portion is not assured to them. M. Mocquard has understood this, gentlemen,—there is some. thing grander than living as a philosopher : it is to die as a Christian." PRIVATE BILLS FOR NEIT SESSIO .h.. Tomorrow (Thursday) is the last day for serving notices on the owners, lessees, and occupiers of property required by the promoters of private bills. Monday, however, was the latest day for posting letters to the persons referred to, and the number of registered letters stnt on that day is said to have been very large. Each letter cost 7d, and contained a form to be filled up and returned, stating whether the per son addressed assents or dissents, or is merely " neuter." A. list of the forms returned will be aftorwarde made up, and submitted to the House of Commons. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. EALING STE Weights for the Middlesex I st lb Serious Case l2 7 Ironsides Portland ll 10 Sly Fox ll 7 Globale Dobbyn Premier ll 4 Gorsehawk Piggy Wiggy 11 2 Bravo ll 2 Fenton Ivanhoff . .. 11 01 ?,PLECHASES. [andicap. Three miles and a st lb The Rogue Yeller Gal lO 12 Shuttlecock Agag .. lO 7 Old Squire lO 7 Bracknell .. 10 7 Little Dick Attaman Overton Aggressor Ned of the Hills ItACING FIXTURES FOlt 1865. JANUARY. Manchester BRUARY. Lincoln Spring . F 2l 1 Nottingham Spring 28 MARCH. Derby Spring 2 Liverpool Spring Shrev4bury Spring 9 Doncaster Spring Wary, ick Spring Chelmsford Spring 28 Northampton 4 Croaton Park 7 Durham l7 Newmarket Craven Catterick Bridge Thirsk Epsom Spring Newmarket Ist Spring.. 1 Chester York Spring .... Ju Salisbury Bath 2 3 Epsom ,Summer 3O Epsom Summer (con.) 1 Manchester 7 Ascot Alexandra Park 2O Ju i Hampton .. 21 INewton Newcastle Worcester Summer rLY. Newmarket July .. 4 Carlisle Pontefract AUG Nottingham Sumner .. 18 Chesterfield Good wood Huntingdon Reading Egham Oxford York August Plymouth .. 24 Lichfield Devon and Exeter 29 Derby Summer 3O Weymouth 3l :MBER. SEPTE Weymouth (continued).. 1 Leicester Doncaster- Brecon lB OCTO Richmond .... Monmouth .... 2l Manchester Autumn ..- 22 Newmarket Ist October.. 26 lEEE Northallerton Newmarket Houghton.. 23 Newmarket Second Oct. 9 Worcester Autumn .... 3 NOVEMBER. Worcester Autumn (continued) 1 WRIGHT'S RACING RECORD for the year now speedily drawing to a close, has just been issued. itaa.l "r (F. Consolidated Assurance Company , ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.—(THIS The eighteenth annual general meeting of the share and policy holders in this company was held this day at the offices of the company, 45, Che a p. side ; H. J. Gibbins, Esq., in the chair. The for.owing reports from the directors arad the actuary were read to the meeting : In accordance with the rules of the company your direc tors present their annual report, with an account of the receipts and expenditure for the year ending 30th Septem ber last, by which it will be seen that the income and assets of the company continue steadily to increase. During the year 585 policies were issued, assuring £ 162 , 1 75, and yielding annual premiums amountin.g to £5,142. The mortality throughout Great Britain has during the past year exceeded the usual average, and assurance com panies have therefore found the claims by death in some de • gree increased during that period. The number and amount, however, of claims paid by this company during the past year ar•e still within the estimated rate of mortality, the sum being £3,564 lie 5d on 42 policies, assuring 36 lives. The gross premiums received on discontinued policies since the formation of the company amount to £34,497; and the gross claims from deaths, including bonuses, during the same period amount to £48,861. The deed committee and one of your auditors have, as usual, examined the Com pany's securities, compared them with the balances out -standing on the books of the company, and they have certie, fled that they found the same correct. Your directors have much pleasure in stating that since the last general meet ing committees of reference have been formed, composed of gentlemen of position and influence, in Liverpool, Man chester, and Birmingham; and they hope to be enabled to state, at the next general meeting, the appointinext o f similar committees in other principal towns of England and Scotland, believing them calculated to support the best interests and advance the prosperity of the com pany, 'With the view to facilitate the forma. don of these arrangements they have instructed their actuary to make a careful valuation of the assets and liabilities of the company as at the 30th September last. That valuation, with the report thereon, is published as an appendix; and the directors believe it will be read with, equal interest and eatisfaCtion by the policy and share holders of the company. The directors who retire pur suant to the deed of settlement, are Messrs H. J. Gibbins, W. Blanford, and E. D. Shirtliff ; who, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election. The directore.:liave to report with sincere regret the death of one of the auditors, viz , Mr J. E. Clennell. The auditors. Messrs Appleton and Arnold, retire ; and, being eligible, offer themselves for re• election. Mr E. H. Galsworthy, of 32, York-place, Port man-square, being eligible, has given notice of his inten tion to offer himself as a candidate for the vacant office of auditor. —By order of the directors, D. M•GlLLlvrtar, Actuary and Secretary. To the Chairman and Directors of the Consolidated Assurance Company. LONDON GAZETTE---Last Evening, INDIAsOFFICE, DEC. 10. The Queen hes been graciously pleased to nominate and appoint his Highness FuTzund Dilbund Raaekhul Itgad Dowlut-i-Englishia Rajah Rajegan Rajah. Rundheer Sing, Bahadoor of liuppootthulla, and his Highness Maharajah Raj Sing, Bahadoor of Hewett, to be Knights of the host Exalted Order of the Star of India. - - FOREIGN OFFICE, JUNE 30. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Henry William Hemars, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul at Buffalo, DEC. 13. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr James Whyte Atkins as Consul in the Island of Barbadoes for his Majesty the King of the Ne'herlands. ADMIRALTY, DEC. 12. The following promotions have been made :—Mr Ed. mend Clerk to be First Class Assistant Engineer in the with seniority of Nov. 15, 1861—hlr Nicholas Dupen Chambers to be First Class Assistant Engineer in. the Fleet, with seniority of Nov. 19, 1861—Mr George Woollard to be Fii st CIP.S Assistant Engineer in the Fleet, with seniority of Dec. 7, 1861. BANKRUPTS. The following are tlie only bankrupts of oommrcial im portance in the Gazette iT e b u l!can, Salford William Foster, outfitter, aosuDtfitteirn, L , George rp Bell, farmer , Littlep o r t ktviemh.arrdarFsaonnseo,buurti,ideear7Benrotemr,leCytltniell Town JJoehhani3Luatheiebyu,iclduerrr,ieFr,oruelsate-thibilul Blackburn Marshall Monk, saddler, Northampton Harry Tuppen, draier, Brighton Isaac Jones, timber dealer, Old Kent-road Thomas R. Baker, commercial traveller, Plurasteal Mary Ann Shepard, milliner, Pimlico BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. Henry Walter Seabrook, clerk, Chelsea Robert Byrne, share broker, Liverpool Samuel Baines, worsted splnnor Brighouse, Yorkshire SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. John Thomson, fleeher, Alloa Steel and Gilchrist, drapers, Dumfries George Sangster. mauutacturer ' Aberdesn Altrei Wyatt, wine merchant, Glasgow Course of Exchange,—Yesterday. Rotterdam pi t Amsterdam to Short. 11 14i 3 Months. 11 18i 11 Antwerp —'2s 521 Brussels — 2 5 521 Hamburg Paris Ditto ........ • 3 Months. 25 55 Marseilles — 25 57i Frankfort on Maine Vienna Trieste Pet ersburgh Borlin Madrid Cadiz Leghorn Milan 11 15. 11 19 12 19 25 621 25 621 13 Si 25 1;5 25 6 2 25 65 120 a 12 15 12 15 .16 461 47 4 - 7 1 26 721 25 771 2?) 72!, 25 771